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Dictionaries :: Persecute, Persecution

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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
A-1 Verb Strong's Number: g1377 Greek: dioko

Persecute, Persecution:

has the meanings

(a) "to put to flight, drive away,"

(b) "to pursue," whence the meaning "to persecute," Mat 5:10-12, 44; 10:23; 23:34; Luk 11:49 (No. 2 in some mss.); 21:12; Jhn 5:16; 15:20 (twice); Act 7:52; 9:4, 5, and similar passages; Rom 12:14; 1Cr 4:12; 15:9; 2Cr 4:9, AV (RV, "pursued"); Gal 1:13, 23; 4:29; Gal 5:11, RV, "am... persecuted" (AV, "suffer persecution"); so Gal 6:12; Phl 3:6; 2Ti 3:12, "shall suffer persecution;" Rev 12:13.
See FOLLOW, PURSUE.

A-2 Verb Strong's Number: g1559 Greek: ekdioko

Persecute, Persecution:

ek, "out" and No. 1, is used in 1Th 2:15, AV, "persecuted" (RV, "drove out"). See also No. 1.
See DRIVE, No. 2.

B-1 Noun Strong's Number: g1375 Greek: diogmos

Persecute, Persecution:

akin to A, No. 1, occurs in Mat 13:21; Mar 4:17; 10:30; Act 8:1; 13:50; Rom 8:35; 2Cr 12:10; 2Th 1:4; 2Ti 3:11, twice (for ver. 12, see A, No. 1). In the Sept., Pro 11:19; Lam 3:19.

Note: In Act 11:19, AV, thlipsis, "tribulation" (RV), is translated "persecution."

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